I've been meaning to share this picture with you for awhile. This is the picture that I painted at the Conference I went to on Children's Ministries. One of the sessions I went to was called "Worship Art". The lady that was leading it showed us many various types of art to do with kids. Anyway, one of the things she showed us was allowing kids to paint about a verse or a song. So, she asked for 2 volunteers to demonstrate.Let me just say that as soon as I saw the paint and the canvasses, I totally wanted to paint. You should also note here that I am NOT artistic. At least I don't think I am.
When she was asking for volunteers, I went to scratch my head and she looked at me and said, "Do you want to do it?" I wasn't raising my hand, even though I really wanted to. I sometimes draw pictures in my journal of things that I picture when I am listening to worship music, so this was no stretch. Anyway, I did it, and the above is the result.
This painting is inspired by a song called "Glory and Honor" by Doug Horley. The words are below. The white in the picture is people praising and worshipping God. The different colors represent different people and different types of worship flowing up to God. Then the gold is God's response to our worship: filling us up with His Spirit; refreshing us; renewing us; claiming us as His own! Hence the gold glowing around us. I was really inspired and loved doing it. I love looking at it. God is good!!
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GLORY AND HONOUR to You we bring
Beautiful Saviour Your praise we sing
Heaven bows down and worships Your name
God of creation we praise
Glory and honour to You we bring
Beautiful Saviour Your praise we sing
Heaven bows down and worships Your name
God of creation we praise
God of creation we praise
And so to You, we'll give You praise
We'll give You glory to You always (rpt)
Honour the King, honour the King
We will honour the King of kings
We will honour the king, honour the king
We will honour the King of kings (rpt)
Doug Horley
Copyright © 2005 Thankyou Music
2 comments:
In my opinion, there is not nearly enough room in the Christian church for the arts. Somehow we feel we should leave the dramatic arts and painting, etc., to Hollywood. It's a shame because truly artistic people are not honoured by the church as if their God given gifts are not as important as, say, preaching or teaching.
I really like this painting and the fact that you were inspired by your strong faith in God makes it even better.
(too bad you live so far away--you could visit me at the frame shop and I could make a nice frame for your creation)
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